The Saturday Review of politics, literature, science, and art was a London weekly newspaper established by A. J. B. Beresford Hope in 1855.
The first editor was the Morning Chronicle's ex-editor John Douglas Cook (1808?–1868), and many of the earlier contributors had worked on the Chronicle.[1] Cook was a Scotsman who had lived in India: he had a house in Tintagel, Cornwall, and is buried there. A stained glass window in the parish church commemorates him.[2] The politics of the Saturday Review was Peelite liberal Conservatism. The paper, benefitting from the recent repeal of the Stamp Act, aimed to combat the political influence of The Times.[3] Frank Harris was editor from 1894 to 1898. The first issue appeared on 3 November, 1855.
The issue of 1 February 1896 caused an uproar in the German Empire for publishing an article titled "be ready to fight Germany, as Germania est delenda (Germany needs to be destroyed)"[4] [5].
Contributors included Lady Emilia Dilke, Anthony Trollope.[6], H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, Max Beerbohm, Walter Bagehot, James Fitzjames Stephen, Charles Kingsley, Max Muller, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and future Prime Minister Lord Salisbury.[7]
The paper was later owned by Lucy, Lady Houston.
The Saturday Review continued to be published until 1938.
References
- ^ Schmidt, Barbara Quinn, ‘Cook, John Douglas (1808?–1868)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 4 Jan 2008
- ^ Dyer, Peter (2005) Tintagel: a portrait of a parish. Cambridge: Cambridge Books ISBN 0 9550097 0 7; p. 422-23
- ^ Andrews, Alexander (1859) Chapters in the History of British Journalism, pp. 232-34
- ^ Umpenhour, Charles Merlin Freedom, a Fading Illusion [1]
- ^ Kelley, Donald R. Frontiers of history [2]
- ^ Fielding, K. J. (1982) "Trollope and the Saturday Review", Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Dec., 1982), pp. 430-442
- ^ Roberts, Andrew (1999) Salisbury: Victorian Titan, p. 39
- Bevington, M. M. (1941) The Saturday Review, 1855-1868: Representative Educated Opinion in Victorian England. New York: Columbia University Press
- "Lady & Lion". Time Magazine. 1933-11-27. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,746350,00.html. - Monday, Nov. 27, 1933
- Time Magazine - Monday, Jan. 25, 1937
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